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i write music and try to play Bach in tune

[thecuriouspianist]

Happy 144th birthday Rachmaninoff!

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music. 

- Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei at the piano, 1910s [ via ]

[thieftoparadise]

romantic piano music

one hand: 64th notes, con fuoco, death

the other hand: *has 0.2 notes*

[cheese24k]

I would have aced biology if the teachers all taught the course like the narrator

[charisma-savingthrow-deactivate]

It’s like a rainbow…of ugly.

[piercingsandink]

Crying

[theimaginator-omniworld]

*Calmly* “Here, the angler fish compares its camouflaging skills to that of a flounder, also a master–”

*Not so calmly* “HOLY CRAP, did you– what the FU–?!?!”

[fuckery-intensifies-deactivated]

This is one of the most hilarious shits in this site, gotta love Zefrank

[cobrilee]

I snort-choke-laughed.

[wordsnquotes]

Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.

Martin, George R.R.. A Clash of Kings. (via 2a-m)

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

What about a thriller where the second violins and the violas get so tired of everybody that they murder the entire orchestra

good

[clerinerd]

I have no words

[classic-jenny]

What could possibly come next? Tune in during the next century to find out!

[thisisntmycat]

[sakrogoat]

Stanhope Alexander Forbes - The Violinist

[classicallytrainedidiot]

i, too, am a suffering musician

welcome to the club. have a complimentary snack!

[thieftoparadise]

Me: I'm going to practice now

Me: fools around with instrument playing random stuff for 30 min before actually practicing

[bookmania]

[thecuriouspianist]

Ludwig the virtuoso

Ludwig was annoyed at a Berlin audience for weeping over his performance. He complained to a friend, “That’s not what we artists wish. We want applause!”

Carl Czerny recorded how Beethoven mocked his audiences for breaking out into sobs and emotional displays after his improvisations. “You are fools! Who can live among such spoiled children?” 

In Beethoven’s twenties, the piano was still a delicate, all-wooden instrument. Ludwig once broke so many strings while performing a Mozart concerto that his friend Anton had to untangle broken strings from the piano as he played.

Friedrich Himmel, royal pianist of the court of Prussia, once improvised for Beethoven. After Friedrich had played for a moment, Ludwig snapped, “Well, when are you going to start?” He explained later, “I thought Himmel had just been preluding a bit.”

In 1797, Ludwig dedicated a four-hand piano sonata to Countess von Browne, who gave him a horse in thanks. He rented space for it at a stable and forgot about it until he was shocked and infuriated by a huge feed bill.

Ludwig lived across the street from his student Babette. He showed up for her morning piano lessons in a sleeping cap, dressing gown, and slippers. He dedicated several pieces of music to her, including the passionate Grande Sonata op. 7, nicknamed “The Beloved.”

An amateur pianist named Carl described Ludwig: “Whoever sees Beethoven for the first time and knows nothing about him would surely take him for a malicious, ill-natured and quarrelsome drunk who has no feeling for music.”

[Need more Beethoven? Read about how his house flooded when he was a child and what it was like to have lessons with Haydn.]

source : BEETHOVEN : anguish and triumph 

[thieftoparadise]

some stagehand probably: mr. tchaikovsky sir we cant actually hit the drum this hard it will break the instrument

potyr ilyich tchaikovsky, wheeling a cannon into the theater: does it look like i give a fuck, johann

[thieftoparadise]

someone: you played really well in that concert :)

me: let me give you a comprehensive list of all the reasons why that is wrong in alphabetical order. number 1,

[diversemovies]

My 2017 aesthetic is movies about black people getting stellar reviews and crushing it at the box office

[mystic-fauna]

Happy Black History Month!

[barcarole]

Hands of German composer Carl Orff with his score for Antigonae - a musical setting after Hölderlin’s translation of the Sophocles tragedy, 1955, by Herbert List.